No-Budget Internet Marketing

November 7, 2008

Just starting out with online business?  Do you lack the resources to stand a chance in striking a deal established JV partners?  lacking the finances for pay per click campaigns?

Don’t fret just yet!

Read up as I discuss 5 free but highly potent methods you can utilize to advertise your business in the World Wide Web.

1.    Marketing with articles.  Craft an article related to the niche of your online undertaking.  Guarantee that this article conveys something informative.  Enroll the article to the big article directories on the web, particularly www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com and www.isnare.com.  Include a bio box, which should state read-worthy tidbits about yourself or your business, as well as the link to your website.  accomplish this at least three times per week.  In due time, you will receive direct traffic courtesy of the people whose interest you’ve garnered because of your articles, as well as indirect traffic because of a higher search engine position achieved with thek help of the countless back links you are sure to get per article.

2.    Link exchange.  This is similar to you scratching another person’s back, and him returning the favor.  Other internet entrepreneurs are also looking for exposure for their enterprises.  hook up with them by ensuring to place their link on your web pages if they will reciprocate your kind deed.

3.    Distributing press releases.  Countless offline and online entities are always looking for interesting items to use.  They study newswires for such pieces.  You can craft a hype-free, noteworthy news item about your online venture.  You may announce the launch of your business, minus self serving words of praise, most definitely.  You may announce the upload of your web pages.  You may announce the launch of a new item, without any form of a sales pitch.  Prepare a press release, and submit the same to online newswires like www.prweb.com, and in a matter of hours, real world and online entities will be picking it up, driving fantastic traffic to your website.

4.    Use and abuse the power of user-driven websites.  The beauty of Web 2.0 websites is that the users themselves have the power to dictate what’s hot and what’s not.  You can use this to your benefit by specifically targeting social news networks (Digg.com, Reddit.com, Propeller.com), social networking websites (MySpace.com,. FaceBook.com), and social bookmarking services (StumbleUpon.com) and making them a part of your marketing campaigns.  Yes, Web 2.0 websites are free to use and abuse.

5.    Search engine optimization.  80% of the traffic that you will be able to generate for your website will come from the search engines.  And search engine traffic won’t cost you a single cent, if you can prepare your web pages to garner the attention of those search engine spiders